Senior Software Engineer - Back End (C#)

About the role

TP ICAP is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its team delivering business-critical software for the internal broking division and its external customers. The role sits in an Agile environment, from design through implementation, with a focus on continuous improvement, continuous integration and deployment, within a self-organising, cross-functional team.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with the Architect/Principal to build solutions aligned to the IT strategy and vision.
• Provide support and mentoring to other team members.
• Partner with QA to deliver quality software, promoting unit tests and code reviews.
• Experiment with multiple technologies and methodologies to choose the best solution.
• Deliver against functional and non-functional requirements and take ownership of key features.
• Communicate progress and raise impediments early.

Required profile

• Degree or 7 years of equivalent industry experience; financial or trading systems experience preferred.
• Desired: background in financial/trading platforms and knowledge of financial markets.
• Desired: experience building scalable, maintainable automated testing solutions for complex systems.
• Desired: experience with serverless architecture, microservices, TDD/BDD and the FIX protocol.

Required skills

• C# development with Visual Studio (latest versions).
• Relational databases such as MSSQL Server and MySQL, including schema design and optimisation.
• Message and event-based asynchronous messaging and distributed real-time systems.
• AWS (or similar cloud platform), including deployment and management of assets.
• GitLab/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, package management and Jira.
• Agile working practices and the full SDLC, from design through QA to post-release support.